On May 13, 2007 the Reverend Bill Bozeman retired as  Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church.

A search committee has begun the process of searching for a new rector.  In this interim period supply priests, assisted by Deacon Wayne Sistrunk, are conducting the regular service schedule.

Deacon Sistrunk was ordained in June, 2006 and came directly to St. Johns.  He is focusing on visitation to ill and homebound parishioners, regular visitation to nursing home facilities and hospitals, and is conducting adult Sunday School on Sunday mornings - the Adult Forum - and is leading an adult mid-week Bible study entitled Bible Journey.

Deacon Wayne recently came out of retirement to manage the University of South Florida’s Chinsegut Hill Conference & Retreat Center here in Brooksville, where he lives onsite.  Wayne previously retired from the University of South Florida in 2002 and upon retirement from full-time work, applied to and was accepted into the Diocese of S. W. Florida’s deacon formation program. The program is a three-year course of study in preparation for ordination into the deaconate.  Wayne was ordained June 10^th, 2006, and assigned to St. John’s.  Wayne’s home church is Holy Innocents’ in Valrico and he was assigned to St. Cecilia’s in Palm River for the last two years.

Wayne is the father of two daughters, Apryl and Annette and the grandfather of 3 granddaughters.  Apryl lives in Valrico, Florida and Annette lives on the Eastern Shore in Maryland.

Wayne’s favorite time of the year is in the fall and winter when football season and cooler weather starts.  There is just nothing like watching a good football game on Sunday afternoon after church.  Wayne’s other past time passion is trying to play at least one note on the 5-string banjo that sounds something like the way Earl Scruggs would play it.  As of this writing, that note has not yet been found.

Deacon Wayne is especially aware of the incarnational nature of the Episcopal Church, as the ministry of a deacon is incarnational. Like Fr. Bill, Wayne believes that we are incarnational because we truly believe that God sent Jesus to live as one of us and die for us and deacons are to represent the living Christ to the world of the sick, the poor, the hungry, the incarcerated and the marginalized. Wayne sincerely believes that the deacon’s operation manual is Matthew 25: 31-40 and the focus his ministry is to bring Christ’s presence to the assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospital and rehab facilities in the local area.